June 2011
4 posts
Blood makes the grass grow
October, 1995. Great Lakes Recruit Training Center.
Petty Officer Second Class Luce: “Why did you join my Navy?”
Various Recruits: “To learn a skill.” “For a career.” “My dad was in the Navy.” “To see the world.”
Me: “To get money for college.”
Luce: “BULLSHIT! You all joined the Navy to KILL! You’re all...
The delightful idiocy of the Apple ID
I have one Apple ID tied to iTunes purchases, one tied to MobileMe, and at least three others that aren’t really tied to anything.
My iTunes ID pre-dates the time when Apple required domain names to be appended to the end. So instead of BlahBlah@eatme.com, it’s just BlahBlah. Naturally, Apple changed things around for FaceTime and iCloud so that these types of accounts don’t...
Robber Barons and Highwaymen
The release of an unlocked, contract-free iPhone in the US can be viewed as a head-scratcher from the Americans’ perspective. Given that the GSM model of iPhone only has full compatibility with AT&T’s network anyway, the ability to switch to T-Mobile at will is a hollow victory at best — T-Mobile’s 3G operates at a frequency the iPhone doesn’t support. Apple itself and...
